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September 8, 2008 - 10:33am.
The fall-in-line-if-you-want-to-keep-your-job media is again, driving this political train, and our scant defenders who still have jobs, (Remember Peter Arnet? Who dared to question what the hell was going on during Shock & Awe? Gone! Works for Al Jazeera last I heard; or Christianne Amanpour? Well she's over in London now..CNN Abroad~SHE wondered why the tank on the bridge in Bahgdad was firing on the hotel where the journalists were staying;Dan Rather, Phil Donahue,Air America is disintigrating before our eyes),now Olbermann and believe it or not poor old Mathews, have been tamped down...(but Pat Buchanan is just fine of course).So now they're helping Rove invent "angry small town people that Obama the elite is out of touch with; disaffected Hillary voters; Walmart women;" AND they're eating up the new polls with zero reasons for them:the Fallwell whackos are now on board because of Palin.duh. And about those numbers viewing the speeches: Democrats watched BOTH conventions, and a handful of Republicans watched only theirs, thus, a touch higher than Obama's speech. Palin was of course going to be watched by anyone paying attention. But the media drives it as a Bewildering Plus for McCain, who will never again appear at a rally without Palin! Look: Two things. Obama has to get back to his message of Unity, the UNITED States of America. He has to point out the McCain Campaign's efforts to divide us again. The Democratic Convention in Denver was a festival. A celebration of hope that we'd all drop the sports like aspect of our politics and get it together and start the work of rebuilding our country. Iraq is destroyed by bombs, our country is destroyed by Division. E PLURIBUS UNUM. Forget about tit for tat or tearing Sarah Palin apart. I watched her debate on cspan and she's quite capable of doing well in that venue. The only way to win this election is stick to the truth, be on the right side of issues, and really believe that we can bring the American people back together. I would love to do an ad using stills from the Republican Convention of the various snarling faces and mispelled signs..it was shocking.The Ugly Americans. Secondly we really have to hone in on their second tactic: Inventing a mythical voting block so that the race seems close, and they can steal it again. It was so easy before, why not again? I'm sure Leibermann will go to the other side when Congress comes back,giving the Republicans back the majority and the Bushies will be able to finish up whatever else they want to do. Namely, give the gas companies more leases of American soil.It's all about real estate. When Bush said Ownership Society, he meant it..that they want to own it all. Let's see how much McCain bucks his party THEN!
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So what? It's important to
Submitted by Flapsaddle on September 8, 2008 - 12:32pm.So what? It's important to the GOP base if it stands a chance to win. The so-called "religious right" is a core constituency of the Republican power-base; without them, GOP victory possibilities diminish considerably.
So what? An important element of the implicit Democrat strategy was that the RR were not going to back McCain in significant numbers; thus, regardless of the fact that few would cross over, their votes would not be adding appreciably to the McCain count.
So what? Sarah Palin changed the equation completely - she has energized a significant part of the base essential to a Republican win. Now, the Obama strategists must contend with the likelihood that the RR base will be fielding a significant force for McCain instead of staying home and sulking.
So what? Sarah Palin, self-described "hockey mom", mother of five - with one of them severely handicapped and one of them an unwed, pregnant teenager - seems to resonate well with a lot of women, especially the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum that may be largely alienated from the Democrats on the basis of race, gender, religion and firearms. Thus, the Democrats have the problem of Hillary not only being unable to arbitrarily deliver this demographic, but the possibility that they may be better able to identify with the governor of Alaska whose problems more closely resemble theirs than they can identify with a young, wealthy black politician's family or with an elderly, wealthy white female politician's family.
So what? It's a great, big, fat, hairy so-what that is going to cause some sleepless nights in both campaign camps.
Most sincerely,
T. J. Flapsaddle
I contend, that you have
Submitted by zuzumamu on September 8, 2008 - 12:56pm.I contend, that you have bought into ANOTHER mythical voting block, the extremist evangelical doomsday christians.It is a fraction of our population, that votes. Republicans have not won an election fairly, by counting the votes, probably since Reagan, but I'll just say 2000.So What, meaning..it explains the 'bump' in finances and polls for now, which the media is treating like THE END of Obama! Yes, suddenly much better quality neg McCain ads are bombarding local television stations, that cable television viewers don't even see. It's not that I'm not concerned, it's that I believe most of America..that 82% that have HAD it with Bush, the Wars, the non economy, are going to, in the end not fall for this crap again.The biggest thing that frightens me, is the Senate returning to a Republican Majority, and the so called Energy blah blah bill will pass, and the stock market will soar on speculation, and gas prices will plummet to something oh so marvelous like, 2.08 a gallon..then, who knows, more people will believe God sent Sarah to bring them cheap gas after all? I was just trying to take the steam out of how the media is presenting, today's Dose.
It is not mythical. It
Submitted by Flapsaddle on September 8, 2008 - 2:08pm.It is not mythical. It exists and it votes Republican to the point of being a pathology. That's what so perturbs the Democrats and their fellow-travelers - Sarah Palin energizes that bloc.
There are more reasonable explanations of the Democrat loss in 2000, and they have more to do with the lack of appeal of Gore to core Democratic blocs than with nefarious schemes involving vote counts and imaginary bought-and-paid-for justices on the USSC.
Most sincerely,
T. J. Flapsaddle
Bull. 2000 was stolen.
Submitted by zuzumamu on September 8, 2008 - 6:13pm.Bull. 2000 was stolen. Period. Ohio was stolen in 2004.Period.If you don't believe the problem, it won't get fixed. Gore won the popular vote whether you think Gore was appealing or not.And Karl Rove intends to steal this election too.
2000 was lost due mostly to
Submitted by Flapsaddle on September 9, 2008 - 10:58am.2000 was lost due mostly to Gore's ineptness.
The final electoral vote (EV) count was Bush 271, Gore 266.
If you strip out Florida's 25 EV, then the count is Bush 246, Gore 266.
If Gore had not lost his home state of Tennessee (11 EV), then the count would have been Bush 235, Gore 277. If he had not lost the supposedly "safe" Democratic enclave of West Virginia (5 EV), then the count would have been Bush 241, Gore 271. Thus, if Gore had managed to carry either his home state of Tennessee, or West Virginia, he wins and Florida is irrelevant!
So, why did Gore lose in a close election when the usual augury was that he should have won easily? We were at peace, the budget was balanced, the economy was recovering, and people were generally pleased with things?
Perhaps it was the Clinton baggage Gore had to haul around, the disgraceful personal conduct that embarrassed his family and his country. Perhaps it was the party platform that he had to try and peddle? Perhaps it was the arrogant, contemptuous attitude of the left-leaning elitists who dictate much of the official religion of the party?
In Florida, blame Ralph Nader for siphoning off some 95,000 "green" votes of those dissatisfied with the environmental planks of the platform and with Gore's lip-service. Twenty percent less for Nader would have assured Gore a clean victory in Florida.
In Tennessee and West Virginia, blame the party's anti-gun plank and the upper echelon's general contempt for fundamentalism for spitting in the face of two states where folk tend, to use Obama's words, "cling to their guns and their religion."
I don't need some convoluted conspiracy theory to explain the loss - just apply old Dr. Occam's chain-saw to the situation.
The popular vote is not what we use to elect presidents, and Bush would not be the first to win the EV without winning the popular vote. If you don't like the EC system, then start beating the drum for an amendment.
Most sincerely,
T. J. Flapsaddle
An amendment to terminate
Submitted by ekaton on September 10, 2008 - 5:05pm.An amendment to terminate the electoral college has no chance at passage.
The way to terminate the electoral system is for an elector to vote AGAINST the popular vote in his state for once. Would I ever LOVE to be an elector!!
-- Kent Shaw
RichardKanePA Sarah Palin is
Submitted by RichardKanePA on September 9, 2008 - 3:14am.RichardKanePA
Sarah Palin is a real fanatic some who want a Constitutional Amendment on prayer, may be appealed at the claim that American troops are fighting for God in Iraq. She said that McCain saw the face of evil in Vietnam. Does that mean she still considers the Vietnam Government evil etc?
We got to point out how extreme she is.
RichardKanePA
Richard Kane. You have
Submitted by Malibu on September 9, 2008 - 7:14am.Richard Kane. You have exposed a very real problem and far too many voters believe that God wants America to destroy Islam. The key word is "evil" and Reverand Warren exposed it when he interviewed both men. This is a very old form of terrorism and America is not able to vote FOR freedoms at this time. America is an extremist nation. There is no way to stop it. The truth is often painful.
Malcolm
You have exposed a very real
Submitted by ekaton on September 10, 2008 - 5:08pm.You have exposed a very real problem and far too many voters believe that AN IMAGINARY SUPERNATURAL BEING that looks like your kindly old grandfather and lives in the clouds wants America to destroy one of the earth's pathetic religions.
-- Kent Shaw